HST 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mahatma Gandhi, Raphael Lemkin, Joseph Schechtman
Document Summary
Period in which societies focus almost exclusively on repairing or reckoning with the devastation of the war itself. Ww2 deaths: soviets and chinese suffered the most devastating losses. Pacific theater: loss of about 20 million people. Soviet union: 20 million excess women between the ages of 17-37. Needed women to enter the workforce, women had to work to support their families. Birth rates were also affected by this push for women to go into the workforce. Key point: ww2 weakened europe across the board. No world power(britain) came out of the war more powerful. Britain was severely weakened and couldn"t help keep control in germany where millions of people were starving. They needed the u. s. to stay involved in global affairs because britain was no longer a world power. Post-war: an ideal state of human existence sought by individuals and organizations hoping to avoid such devastating conflict in the future.
